Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
Denys Kiryukhin, FPRI: The Ukrainian Military: From Degradation to Renewal
In August 2015, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense officially launched a comprehensive effort to overhaul the country’s armed forces as conflict razed through the country’s Donbas region. Three years later, fighting capabilities have reached their highest levels since independence in 1991. Yet, Ukraine’s security problem persists, as its military potential remains vastly inferior to that of its primary adversary: Russia. This deficiency would not be so great had Ukraine not renounced its nuclear weapons in 1996 under the Budapest Memorandum’s security guarantees—or if the country had a clear prospect of joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). However, as neither of these options exists today, Ukraine must rely on its own conventional forces.
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WNU Editor: The Ukraine Army has improved with the help of western countries. But it is far from being the effective force that many had hoped it would be by now. As to the more important question .... can the Ukraine Army retake the eastern part of the country? The answer is no.
